“SKIN” – watch the racially-charged pilot and help make it happen!

This is a true story of a Coloured girl born to two white parents during apartheid in South Africa. (this phenomenon is known as a ‘thowback’, when outwardly “White” people refuse to acknowledge that their family tree has been “tainted” by sexual liaisons across the colour line have children which simply do not share the same phenotype as them…a right royal apartheid conundrum if u ask me…). ‘SKIN’ the movie shows the struggle this little Coloured girl faced growing up and finding love in a family and a community that was divided along racial grounds. [Read more for details]

(WHAT? No streaming video?? Click here to checkout the clip on the Youtube site!)

10 year-old Sandra is distinctly African looking, though light-skinned. Her parents are shopkeepers in a remote area of the Eastern Transvaal: white Afrikaners who, despite Sandra’s mixed-race appearance, have lovingly brought her up as their ‘white’ little girl.

They send her to the local boarding school, where her brother has gone before her.

Yet other parents, teachers and children at the school react strongly to Sandra’s ‘African’ looks — and, for the first time in her life, she is made painfully aware of being different. Within a year, she is examined by State officials, reclassified as ‘coloured’, and expelled from the school.

Sandra’s parents are horrified. Her father Abraham fights through the courts to have her reclassified as white.

The producers of this movie, having completed the film pilot need your assistance to make this film a reality. Visit www.elysianfilms.com for more information.